Magnetotransport of Functional Oxide Heterostructures Affected by Spin-Orbit Coupling: A Tale of Two-Dimensional Systems

Abstract: Oxide heterostructures allow for detailed studies of 2D electronic transport phenomena. Herein, different facets of magnetotransport in selected spin-orbit-coupled systems are analyzed and characterized by their single-band and multiband behavior, respectively. Experimentally, temperature- and magnetic field-dependent measurements in the single-band system BaPbO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ reveal strong interplay of weak antilocalization (WAL) and electron-electron interaction (EEI). Within a scheme which treats both, WAL and EEI, on an equal footing a strong contribution of EEI at low temperatures is found which suggests the emergence of a strongly correlated ground state. Furthermore, now considering multiband effects as they appear, e.g., in the model system LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$, theoretical investigations predict a huge impact of filling on the topological Hall effect in systems with intermingled bands. Already weak band coupling produces striking deviations from the well-known Hall conductivity that are explainable in a fully quantum mechanical treatment which builds upon the hybridization of intersecting Hofstadter bands.